December 13, 2007
Religious Groups Denied State Aid in Court Ruling
The State of Iowa violated the Constitution by granting aid to an evangelical Christian rehabilitation program at a state prison, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
The ruling mostly affirmed a lower court's view, but the appeals panel said the lower court had gone too far in directing the Christian group that runs the prison program to repay the roughly $1.5-million in state money it received, starting at the end of 1999.
The case is the latest in a battle over
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